Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe MINNEAPOLIS, June 4 (UPI) -- A Minneapolis man says the city mowed down the prairie grass he spent three years cultivating and stuck him with the $140 bill for the job. Environmentally conscious Michael Anschel said he planted the prairie grass three years ago as a no-water, no-mow alternative to his previous lawn and the city sent him a notice May 17 informing him the seed stalks that sprouted a few weeks ago and the length of the grass, more than 8 inches, violated city ordinances, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Friday. Advertisement Anschel said he left a message with inspectors explaining that mowing would ruin the grass and he hoped the city would give him more time. However, he said he returned home from work Tuesday and found the grass had been mowed by city workers. "It would kind of be as if somebody came and cut down your rose bushes after you'd spent the last three years trying to get them to bloom right," Anschel said. He said the mowing seemed "counterintuitive" for a city that stresses environmentally progressive goals.
